Alternate Names For Sugar
We know sugar is bad for us. For some actual reasons why, see my post “Top 29 Reasons To Avoid Sugar”.
You know why to avoid it. Do you know how to avoid it?
Manufacturers seem to keep coming up with new names for it, seemingly in hopes that we will miss it in their foods.
The following list is a list of alternate names for sugar. Not everything on this list is literally from the sugar cane plant, but they all are sugars or sugar alcohols that raise your blood sugar. Some are a little bit better than the others, for example honey and maple syrup, but even those are not good for your blood sugar, and have those empty calories that we don’t want.
Please do not substitute artificial sweeteners for sugar. They are artificial. God did not create them. There is plenty of evidence that they are even more harmful than natural God-created sugars. Artificial sweeteners are accused of causing headaches, chronic fatigue, brain tumors, and cancer among other things. There is some evidence that they also increase your desire for, what else, sugar!
One acceptable substitute seems to be stevia. There is no known adverse side effects in the twenty-plus years that is has been studied. I use it regularly myself.
Now, here is the list:
- agave nectar
- amazake
- barbados sugar
- barley malt
- beet sugar
- blackstrap molasses
- brown sugar
- buttered syrup
- cane crystals
- cane juice crystals
- cane sugar
- caramel
- carob syrup
- castor sugar
- confectioner’s sugar
- corn syrup
- corn sweetener
- corn syrup solids
- crystalline fructose
- date sugar
- demerara sugar
- dextrin
- dextran
- dextrose
- diastatic malt
- diatase
- d-mannose
- dried glucose syrup
- evaporated cane juice
- ethyl maltol
- florida chrystals
- free flowing
- fructose
- fruit juice
- fruit juice concentrate
- galactose
- glucose
- glucose solids
- glucose syrup
- golden sugar
- granulated sugar
- grape sugar
- grape juice concentrate
- hfcs
- high-fructose corn syrup
- honey
- icing sugar
- invert sugar
- lactose
- malt extract
- malt syrup
- maltitols
- maltodextrin
- maltose
- mannitol
- maple syrup
- molasses
- muscovado sugar
- organic raw sugar
- panocha
- powdered sugar
- raw sugar
- refiner’s sugar
- rice syrup
- sorbitol
- sorghum syrup
- sucrose
- sugar
- syrup syrup
- table sugar
- treacel
- turbinado sugar
- yellow sugar
Read the product labels. Check everything. There is “sugar” in some peanut butters, most catsup, breads, crackers, cereals, jellies, and of course candies, cakes, pies etc. Stop buying so many products with sugar. Throw them out of your pantry. Eat natural, whole foods that God created instead and you will eventually find your sugar cravings lessening. Non-spam comments welcome.